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<section id="replication-materials-for-the-effect-of-persuasive-communication-on-voting-intentions" class="level1">
<h1>Replication Materials for “The Effect of Persuasive Communication on Voting Intentions”</h1>
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<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="description">Description</h2>
<p>This repository contains the replication materials for <em>Berk, N. 2025. “The Effect of Persuasive Communication on Voting Intentions”</em>, published in Political Behavior. To replicate the main analyses in the Manuscript, please execute <code>replication.R</code>.</p>
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<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="data">Data</h2>
<p>The <code>/data</code> folder contains the published raw survey responses. For access to the open survey responses, please contact the author via <a href="mailto:nicolai.berk@gmail.com">nicolai.berk@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="outputs">Outputs</h2>
<p><code>replications.R</code> will produce the following output, replicating the analyses in the manuscript:</p>
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<li><code>data/</code>
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<li><code>main_long_clean.csv</code></li>
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<li><code>output/</code>
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<li><code>figure_3.png</code></li>
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